Dan Brown

Dan Brown

Born: June 22, 1964 (age 46)Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.

Occupation: Novelist

Genres: Thriller, Mystery fiction
The Novelist Dan Brown is an American writer of thriller fiction, best known for the 2003 bestselling novel, The Da Vinci Code. The celebrity Dan Brown's novels, which are money hunts set in a 24-hour time period, attribute the recurring themes of cryptography, keys, symbols, codes, and conspiracy theories. His books have been translated into over 45 languages, and as of 2009, sold over 80 million copies.Brown's novels that attribute the lead role Robert Langdon also include chronological themes and Christianity as recurring motifs, and as a result, have generated disagreement. Brown states on his website that his books are not anti-Christian, despite the fact that he is on a 'constant spiritual journey' himself, and says of his book The Da Vinci Code that it is simply "an entertaining narrative that promotes spiritual conversation and debate" and suggests that the book may be used "as a positive catalyst for introspection and exploration of our faith".
Novels
Digital Fortress, 1998

Angels & Demons, 2000

Deception Point, 2001

The Da Vinci Code, 2003

The Lost Symbol, 2009

Films
The Da Vinci Code, 2006

Angels & Demons, 2009
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Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Gail Winfrey Profile

Full Name: Oprah Gail Winfrey

Born: January 29, 1954 (age 56) Kosciusko, Mississippi, United States

Residence: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Occupation: Talk show host, media proprietor, actress

Years active: 1983–Present

Salary: $385 million (2008)

Net worth: < $2.4 billion (Mar. 2010) Political party: Democratic Party

Partner: Stedman Graham

Biography:Awards:

Year:1986

Result: Nominated

Award: Oscar

Category: Best Actress in a Supporting Rolefor: The Color Purple (1985)

Nominated for Oscar. Another 31 wins & 19 nominations
Black Movie Awards

Year:2005

Result: Nominated

Award: Black Movie Award

Category: Outstanding Television Moviefor: Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) (TV)

Shared with:Kate Forte ,Quincy Jones ,Matthew Carlisle

Oprah Gail Winfrey was born into shortage in rural Mississippi to a adolescent single mother and later raised in an inner-city Milwaukee district. She was a celebrity andknowledgeable significant hardship during her childhood, counting being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14 age; her son died in infancy. She Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in high school and began co-anchoring the local evening news at the age of 19. Her moving ad-lib delivery eventually got her transferred to the daytime talk show arena, and after boosting a third-rated local Chicago talk show to first place she launched her own construction company and became internationally syndicated.Qualified with creating a more cherished confessional form of media announcement, she is thought to have popularized and revolutionized the sensationalist talk show genre pioneered by Phil Donahue, which a Yale study claims broke 20th century taboos and allowed LGBT people to enter the conventional, the mid 1990s she had reinvented her show with a focus on literature, self-improvement, and theology. Although criticized for unleashing acknowledgment culture and promoting controversial self-help fads, she is generally admired for overcoming adversity to become a benefactor to others. In 2006 she became an early supporter of Barack Obama and one analysis estimates she delivered over a million votes in the close 2008 Democratic primary race, an achievement for which the governor of Illinois considered offering her a seat in the U.S. senate.

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